Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Glenn Beck on his missing the point of communitarianism

A couple years ago Tim (my camp host who watches a lot of TV) told me he saw "what you write about" on a TV talk show. I said, "Wow, what show?" and he replied, "I forget, maybe it was Lou Dobbs." "Did they say the word communitarianism?" I asked. Tim wasn't sure, but he thought "they" did. I completely forgot about it until today, when Kevin Eggers sent this:

November 10, 2008

GLENN: Prime Minister Brown has said the international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity. Oh, it usually does, doesn't it? To create a truly global society, a speech that Gordon Brown is going to give today. The alliance between Britain and the U.S. and more broadly between Europe and the U.S. can and must provide leadership, not in order to make the rules for ourselves but to lead the global effort to bring a stronger and more just international order. He says we are living in a uniquely global age and it is now in our power to come together so 2008 is not remembered just for the failure of the financial crisis that engulfed the world but for resilience and optimism when we face the storm and gird it and prevailed.

You know what, it's funny that he would use that language because that is the language of the Sweater story that I am telling Mao but it is about facing your own storm. But your storm is your storm and that's what these globalists don't understand. It's your storm. It's my storm. It's America's storm. We must work together. We must stay together. We must listen to our neighbors. We must work together as a planet, but we must not ever lose our individuality. And that's what these collectivists want. That's what these communitarians want.

You You know, when I first sobered up and I went back to school, I mean, Joe Lieberman and I had a close relationship, believe it or not, at one point and he actually spoke to me then and I didn't mean to but I usually do end up, because I'm so brutally honest, I insulted him, and we've only -- you'll notice if Joe Lieberman is ever on this program, he will always say things like, "I remember when... but..." he'll also say, "I'm very proud of you because I remember you when... but..." he's never on except for extraordinarily crucial days. Election days usually. And that's okay. But Joe Lieberman and I used to go back and forth. This is right after I sobered up. We would go back and forth and he would say, "You're a Democrat." And I would say, "You're a conservative." But I started reading everything and when I first sobered up, I decided I was going to take absolutely everything out of me. I wasn't going to believe in anything, even God. And I took everything out of me and I only put it back in after I had examined it. I realized it, what was I, 30 something years old, 32 years old? I didn't really believe in anything other than what people had told me, you know? I was the average Schmo that, you know, you're busy, you got life going on and you're like, "Yeah, I think that one makes sense." But you haven't really done your homework on it. And there's a lot of reasons why. I mean, it's tough stuff, man. You really want to look at abortion? You really want to look at all of this stuff? And if you do, then it means you have to live within the parameters if you want to try to be consistent. And so I went to the library and I went to the bookstores and I bought everybody who would disagree with each other. Then I started reading on communitarianism and collectivism. And I'll never forget, I think it was Michael Lerner I was reading and I happened to see Joe Lieberman and I said, "Have you ever read Michael Lerner?" And he said, why, what do you think of him? And I said, I don't know, I like -- I think this is the way that we should be. And he smiled and he said, "I told you." And I said, "Told me what?" And he said, "You're a Democrat. Do you know that Michael Lerner is one of Hillary Clinton's favorite people." And I said, "Really?" I think it was Michael Lerner. If it's not, Michael, my apologies. And he said, yeah, she really believes in that, the "It takes a village." Because I had just started to really kind of investigate and it really started to -- I went back home and I started reading it again but, you know, with fresh eyes, with the eyes of, "It takes a village." And not that it takes a village, because it does. It takes all of us working together. It does. And this is where people are going to get lost. When you hear the rhetoric of "It takes a village, guys, we have to watch out for each other, we've got to work together, we're in this together," you think to yourself, yes, that's true. Why do you want to be such a hate monger and say we're not? But the secret is that village is forced to work together. It takes a village and it takes a village to tell that parent how to raise that child, to police that child. Somebody's at the top of the food chain and it's no longer the parent. It's no longer the individual. It's the community. And that's what people -- that's what I missed the first time I took glance at this and that's what's coming our way. Compassion. Community compassion. That's a lie. That's communism. That's Naziism. That's fascism, statism. It's not the most important ism and that is individualism. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/17999/

A keyword search for this quote brought up some interesting articles, like this:

The Rise of Collectivist Conservativesby Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor of Cato Unbound. Added to cato.org on May 20, 2009. This article appeared in The Week on May 20, 2009.

All I can say is, lucky you! THere is NO talk show across the whole of the UK that would even discuss anything like this. British tv and radio is even more dumbed down than US tv and radio. All talk shows here ever discuss are celebrities and who bonks who, who has had a boob job and other stupidity. Nothing like this is ever discussed here in the MSM. Ever! Not for at least 20-25 years, no wonder Brits are all so lost, there is a kind of childishness and self-indulgence here that goes through to old age, there aren't many real, strong-minded grown-ups here anymore. TV and radio hosts in the UK all sound like patronising school teachers. THEY NEED A GOOD SLAP!

Both of you made me smile and yet none of this is funny! heh. thanks for the link Pete, have so little time to edit my posts these days.

and cheese, I can't imagine what life is like for you if that is seriously the level of maturity in the UK. But then again I don't know anything about Americans anymore since I have not sat down and watched straight TV shows in a decade or more. And then there's the fact that the UK produced you and John and a couple others I've met... and I don't see you needing any sort of shock treatment. :)

If a nation can still produce citizens who think independently, is there still hope for retaining that nation's independence?

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I'm pretty sure that Beck can and will see this threat again through even more clear eyes now. His paradigm is shifting rapidly. That article was two years ago and he's really hitting hard on the progressive movement right now. The progressives it would seem walk hand in hand philosophically if not in true practice with communitarinism. I suspect both after reading everything on it thus far (my brain is bleeding, but I shall soldier on...in the morning)

I'm just saying. And I'm freaked actually. This is so much more covert than I thought possible. (why the heck am I always surprised? Naive I guess)

Name it and it will go away. Or name it something else, package it as something else and everyone will just happily go along because it sounds like sunshine and lollipops. Never mind the troll under the bridge.

It's now October of 2011, and I can confidently say that the blogger, Niki Raapana, is wrong about Beck and Palin. Both of them are firmly standing against any collectivism, globalism (including the hoax of man-made global warming, communism, fascism, marxism, socialism, destruction of the USA or it's Constitution, etc, etc, etc. I would like to see Niki write a blog that states that she no longer believes Beck (at least!) and/or Palin are communitarian. Beck has been talking about Agenda 21 on his internet TV show, GBTV.com, and NOT in positive terms!

Besk's agenda is even more clear to me today, and I am not wrong based on what else he has going lately. Big deal if he's talking about Agenda 21, lots of frauds are talking about it now... leading people back down into the rabbit hole by pretending to expose it without ever exposing the principles or the ideology that supports it. Both these characters are Zionists, which is the portion of the plan people are supposed to ignore. They don't go after communitarianism because that's the key that unlocks their ultimate participation in the whole scam. Becks' recent trip to Israel was very revealing, and his politics are based in his religion. Interesting that your list of things they oppose did not include communitarianism, shhhhh.

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I'm Niki Raapana, an independent researcher, co-founder of the Anti Communitarian League (ACL) with Nordica Friedrich, co- author of 2020: Our Common Destiny and co-author of the Anti Communitarian Manifesto.